Anything other than wrapping it in bacon.

June will be 3 years we've known each other, but we've been friends for 2 years. He's NEVER hugged me. He has given me high-fives, shaken my hand (even did a cool, friendship handshake once), jokingly ran into me full-body, reached his hand/arm in between my legs to pick up something off the ground in his car, poked me on the nose with a pen, put his hand on my back or shoulder, but absolutely no hug ever. Not even a side-hug!!! He's happily married and I'm engaged now, but I've always found it odd that he's never hugged me. 6 months ago, my mom passed away. I saw him the next day and his wife hugged me, but he didn't and he was awkward and didn't know what to say. Sunday, I went to visit the family at the hospital as his oldest son is in the hospital (nothing too serious). His wife, again, hugged me but he just walked by and put his hand on my shoulder and asked how I was. Why doesn't he hug me? I'm 28, he's 39. I've seen him side-hug a girl we both know, but I can't remember if she initiated it or not. I don't know how to even initiate a hug with them since we've never done it before. Supreme Thoughts, I've hugged many guy friends and half the time, they've initiated it.

I see tagging as more of a friend thing than an enemy thing

My friend recently tried to kill herself. She was raped shortly before and many things were said on social media that she was lying etc etc. she filmed her suicide and posed it online and it makes me think she just did it for attention. she has just now gotten in contact with me and I haven't really talked to her because idk what to say. We have been really good friends for like a year now and we haven't gotten in a huge argument before eve though she is one of those friends that I have to constantly babysit at parties when she's drunk/high. I feel like I need to say something to explain my feelings but I don't want to b too hard on her rn or say anything to make what she is feeling worse. I want to b a supportive friend but I really don't know how. Any tips would help :)

in mean girls, they give regina george bars that make her fat and therefore she loses all her friends, how can i do something like that so that a friend group hates each other and is no longer a friend group

there is a toxic friend group in my grade. when they are alone, they are fine but as a group, they make you feel bad about yourself and as though you have no friends or need more. they are extremely cliquey. i used to be relatively apart of the group because i was dating one of them. but then he dumped me over text and now they ignore me and it makes me feel bad. whenever i am talking to one of them and they see someone else in their group, they will immediately abandon me to stand alone and once again feel bad. they also obviously broadcast their plans to you knowing that you re not invited and leave u feeling bad about yourself. they are quick to turn on people and collectively hate on others in our grade, cruely making fun of them and mocking them. this friend group is completely toxic and the only solution is to destroy them and disband the group. does anyone have any ideas on how?

At my school there is a group of friends (I am not in it) that is very clique-y. They are toxic and make other people feel very excluded and bad about themselves because they never know where they stand and it makes them feel as though they have no friends. How do I take them down?? Like get them all to hate each other or become not friends anymore (because they are each okay people when they are alone and not with other group members.) Please help me DESTROY this friendship.

I recently have found myself, really enjoying the company of my Bestfriend s(who is a male) brother. I am also getting the vibe that he likes me too. This is a situation that I wouldn t mind persuing. I ve known this family for almost 11yrs. and I don t want to make it weird or have my friend be mad at me because their family recently went through a situation with a friend dating another sibling and he was very upset. However, I really like his brother so what should I do. Let it go or try and pursue it. The brother is also like 20 and I m 26 so there is that.

I believe that you should treat your friends like family but just how should you do that exactly? I know this sounds like a weird question sorry

hi. I am 18, a guy. my friend who graduated last year introduced me to these freshmen (they are now sophomores). I hung out with them a few times when they weren't annoying. (keep in mind, these are girls). anyway, they just kept getting on my nerves. it turns out this girl and I had a few things in common. I told them I work at Target. well that was a mistake. a few weeks ago they were at my store and just stalked me the whole time. they were running around the aisles etc. (I'm in the cashier department). for some reason they bought a **** ton of things. came into my line at LEAST 10 times. they did it again yesterday. should I not be friends with them?

Hello. My friend and I are both math teachers working in the same school. I was telling her how I simplified a problem for my students so that it will be easier for me to teach and easier for them to grasp. I asked her if she would like to try it with her students and tell me if that works. She looked annoyed and said she hated that specific problem, not to her taste. A few days after I had to watch her teach( never mind why) and guess what-she did that exact same problem without the simplification. What do you make of this? Was she trying to get to me? Or was this just a thoughtless act on her part? We have been working for 2 years together and during that time she was nice eg saying good things about me so I don't know what to make of the above event. What do you guys think? Actually she made the problem harder for the students while I made it much easier. Same problem she said she hated to teach cause it wasn't interesting.

So I have a friend and when I say friend I mean it very loosely we've been friends for like 13 years and he's like one of those people where he really doesn't have any regard to how you feel and piss all over you in a sentence anyways. I recently got a job about 2 months ago and the past couple checks I've gotten weren't a lot of money so the latest check I got my hours increase and I got a big paycheck and I wanted to tell him about it so I said. Hey I got this paycheck and it was this X amount and he says. Why would I care about that I don't need to know that. so is this how friends talk after 13 years of knowing each other or am I just thinking too much?

Maybe it's just where I live, but I rarely see a woman go up to another woman and say that she's beautiful or compliment her clothing. The other day, I complimented a woman and she said I made her day because most women just stare and give her dirty looks. Is this a universal thing? If so, why?

So I am a high schooler in 10th grade and I told my friend that I like Mario games. He responded with "Woah dude, that's a classic.". After that, I continued talking about my collection of Mario games at home. He was impressed. Then the next day in art class I start getting bullied by girls in that class. One the girls who are my crush named Sarah says " Look it's the baby who likes playing Mario games,". I say " What is wrong with playing Mario?". Sarah responds with " It means you are still a virgin." Then her friend Miranda says " What a loser he doesn't even realize what he is playing is meant for little kids,". Her other friend Amanda says " I know right so sad,". I just shrug it off and let it go. The bell rings and it is time for me to go home. I am the last person in the classroom because I was helping my teacher put away stuff. I finish cleaning up and exit the classroom. I walk down the hallway to the exit of the school but am stopped by Miranda and her friends. Miranda says " Where do you think you are going shorty,". She said that because I am 4 feet and 10 inches and she is 6 feet and 5 inches. She grabs my skinny body and heads to the women's restroom. I SCREAM AT THE TOP OF MY LUNGS FOR SOMEONE TO HELP ME. Inside the restroom, they forced me to lick the toilet water. What should I do to stop my bullying at school? Also, how do they know that I like Mario games if I haven't told anyone, but my friend?

At a cafe where I did vocational placement one time I said to the owner I'm gonna ignore you. I have been told I would have to owe an apology. Why is it so wrong to do that?

Ok, so I'm looking for opinions from those of you in your twenties and thirties who are doing their best to make a living, go out, maintain friendships, and have a functional dating life in today's world. Personally, I feel like people these days dont want to open up about any day-to-day struggles they encounter due to judgement from their peers for not being "perfect". I know plenty of people who put on a fantastic show of having everything together, yet on the inside are truly struggling to get through each day. They're in constant fear of being an outcast and feel completely alone. So my question is this: would you read a daily blog that addresses all of the ridiculous things that us millenials encounter daily? I'm talking work, sex, friendships, family, roommates, partying, dating, etc. I know there are plenty of sources out there that talk about all of these subjects, but I want to get into the nitty gritty of them - the details that people are too afraid to bring up, but everyone is thinking. Thoughts pleaseee :)

I went away from school due to visiting family in another country and now I finally came back to finish my senior year of high school. I rarely got any texts by friends and i doubt they missed me. They made other friends when I was gone so now I feel alienated when we sit all together during recess. No one talks to me and I don't think they really care about me. Bad things have happened in the past and I should feel better that im technically cutting ties, but the feeling of loneliness makes me anxious and sad since I know there aren't other people I could be friends with

For example, people who come to visit. Keep in mind we both still live with our single mother. I'm curious. I don't want to make it feel like im being jealous but I kind of am. But I don't tell my little brother this. And he doesn't tell me how he got those snacks like chocolates and chips until I ask him. He never shares. He doesn't tell me anything. I bought him chocolates, one of his favorite movies Army of Darkness, an Ultraman comic book and a dragon ball super shikishi art card the day before he got all those chocolates and snacks from other people who came over. And there are adults, not like his friends or anything. It makes me feel pretty bad. Tbh I have bought him a lot of **** but it looks like he doesn't care. I don't know what this feeling is but I hate it. I don't like this feeling. I, know I have no right to hate my brother but I feel like he doesn't understand where I am coming from. All these people who keep gifting him things.. It feels so wrong. Am I doing something wrong? What would cause him to accept things from others and not tell me? I try my best not to let him down. I never buy anything only for myself because I know how much it hurts bc our father left us when we were small kids. He doesn't know what it's like having to deal with people who look down at us. Am I wrong expecting him to look up to me? I feel like ****.. Ok I think I might have said some hurtful things in this post. It might offend him and Im sorry if it sounds offensive to anybody else, but right now I hate how he accepts things without telling me. I'm afraid of losing him. I don't want other people persuading him and he believes that they care about him if they don't. I'm afraid they are just trying to get his trust and use him. I have seen people do this before, they act like they care about you and then when you need them the most they leave

I not usually don't understand having a friend much I need a advise

I suffered.Does it make sense?

This question is about a friend that I don't know what to say or do to help her. I have seen her studying a lot in the library and other places. I have one class with her and she have helped me to understand the class material and homework, but on tests, she usually fail and my other friends and I pass with good score. I cant understand how is that she has helped us to understand the material but she has not pass some tests. Now I feel she doesn't want to help anyone but I have seen her stress and I would say jealous as well. I really feel that her tests scores doesn't reflect what she knows, which has made her been very upset and isolated. Any ideas of what should I do?

I've recently met a new friend, she's a really sweet person but getting on my nerves. We're both 26, she's a full time mum so I guess she gets bored at home and is constantly sending me messages. She calls every day and wants to talk for a long time. I want to be her friend but she clearly doesn't understand that my circumstances don't give me time for all that. I work full time, live alone so when I get home I'm usually cooking, gym and sleep. I get about an hour to relax and that hour is now being taken up by her phone call... how do I tell her to stop being so clingy without being rude ?

I literally do everything with her and I feel like I will be alone all the time now :(

I want to confront her but I try to be positive all the time & don't want drama with anybody. She's 19 btw... still in high school & is having her second kid already. This one day I dressed up nice & my friends were hyping me up & she just sat there giving me dirty looks. But whenever I'm talking, she has to jump in & say something rude. Like the other day I was talking to my friend, not her, & she jumped in & said "I'm nosy". I wasn't being "nosy", I was simply asking my friend what she was doing this weekend. & one day we were playing a game at school & I said "I have 8". Then she slowly starting moving away from me & was like "I thought you said you had AIDS". She tries to humiliate me & it makes me feel bad b/c I don't talk to her or anything & she has an issue w/ me for no reason. I wanna confront her next time she does it without creating drama.

Okay listen my friend is hell-bent that it has a name. Despite three people telling her otherwise. Help me out. Prove her wrong. This is what she showed me:

So a close friend of mine had severe anxiety and depression. He's not diagnosed but has the warning signs of borderline personality disorder. He vents to me, I have absolutely no problem listening to him. I continuously tell him I'm always there for him. I'm very nice and supportive of him. But recently we've been having issues with making plans. I invite him over all the time just so he's out of the house and occupied. He will either blow me off, lie to me, cancel, ignore me, or come up with some excuse at last minute. It really screws up my evening sometimes and it's very frustrating. When he does this he usually blows it out of proportion and it usually ends resulting in a heated argument. As pathetic as it sounds It's to the point where I get so frustrated with him I just sit in my room and cry. He keeps telling his symptoms make him not come over or want to see me but recently I snapped on him. I said he needs to stop giving into his symptoms and to actually try and there is no excuse. I told him that he does nothing but continuously lie to me, disrespect my time and that he has no consideration for my feelings. He complains to me all the time that he hates feeling depressed, but he refuses to make himself better or to even try. He claims I'm the only friend he's got but he does that to me. Ever since he's been ignoring me and won't even talk to me. I really don't want him to do that. I'm hurt by what he's done but I'm really worried about him and I don't know what to do

Every day at school this boy in my grade always has to jump in my conversations with people & say dumb ****. I literally don't even talk to this kid, I ignore him b/c of the **** he says & never once gave him issues & always try to be a positive person. Last week he told me he hopes my bf "drops dead". That probably bothered me the most but I ignored it. Today I wasn't anywhere by him & I was taking pictures of my self & then he suddenly tells me to my face that I'm "ugly". I'm not anywhere close to ugly, I know that. I don't know why this guy always says mean things to me when I've never done anything to him. If I ask him why, I won't get a direct answer. I'm mad to be honest.

We recently had a family move into the house next to ours. They have one girl who is in my sons class, 3rd grade. The little girl is left alone most of the day and left to roam theneighborhood freely. Something I wouldnever let my kids do and I have 5 but my husband and I run a tight ship. We had a chain link fence in our yard and had it removed before Christmas.Leaving us with nothing. So she came over to the back door constantlyto see if our kids could play. No big deal at the time but it was an hourly thing she would knock on the door if I said no. Then we had our vinyl privacy fence installed and we installed an inground trampoline and a playground for our kids. We did nothave a lock on the gate and I would come home to this girl in our yardon the trampoline. I promptly put a lock on the gate. Then she started taking chairs and climbing over the fence. I kindly told her to please stop and knock on the front door. Then if I said no one time she would knock on the door every fifteen minutes. My kids would have a friend spend the night she would knock even more. Now I feel bad and do let her play sometimes but I have enough kids I don't want to babysit theirs for free and she doesn't listen she has broken our gate twice already. I really don't like having her over because if she got hurt on our trampoline her parents are the types to sue...what do I do. I don't want to be mean and I feel bad she seems sad most of the time but I don't know how to settle this issue.

I have this friend, she's very nice, pretty, and awesome to be around with. One of my friend hinted that she liked someone in the Tennis Team (which we are both a part of), that she liked someone who has two A's in their first name. The thing is, i'm the only one in the tennis team with two A's in their first name. If it is me, I don't really know how i'd go about it. I think she's pretty awesome, but she's taller than me, and that makes me really conscious about my height, since i'm only 5'3, and she's 5'6, and she's also larger than me. I've told her prior to the hint that my friend gave me that I like this other girl in the tennis team. And whenever I bring the girl I like up, she gets quiet. Honestly, I don't know how to go about it. Me and one of my friends talked about physical preference. And he told me that it shouldn't matter. I know that he's right, but I can't bring myself to stop thinking about it. I feel like a douche having a preference on physical appearance now. I really don't know what to do. Any advice?

My best friend and I have been friends since we were children. Ever since we started high school we gotten more close by talking to eachother every day and stuff. But lately she's just been getting on my nerves like telling me what to do or what to wear. Like we have a party next week and she's telling me to go out and buy a whole outfit or wear what she wants me to wear. Like why do I need to waste my money on something I'm probably never gonna wear again? Or why do I have to wear what she tells me to wear. She says because "you'll fit in we will all look cute for Instagram, but you won't match us if u don't wear it" like I could honestly care less I never wanted to go to the party anyway. But of course she always makes it about her self and is making me do what she wants me to do. And then for last Halloween I had this really fun group idea and she pressures me into wearing a group costume that is literally not what I wanna wear cause it's just so out of my league and childish. But you know she's my friend so I of course just go with it, cause I'm forced to. And she's just so bossy and she puts me down too sometimes like shes cold hearted.She barely has time for me anymore. She barely is there for me. I was crying last week cause of my boyfriend and she completely ignored what I said and made it all about herself talking about her experience. So she tells me to go to sleep. She didn't help me at all. I don't know what to do one day I'm just gonna snap at her please help.

My insecure female friend is acting like we are going through pre wedding jitters, arguments She is acting like she does not know if she could trust me or not even though I have known her for 30 years Why is she like this